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1st Annual Cherry Mae Reynolds Christmas Hope

For the past few months I have spoken to my mother in regards to creating a Caribbean themed event in Atlanta where the proceeds go to an Aids organization. After a long debate, we have decided to purchase Christmas gifts for the kids of the infectious disease unit of Grady Hospital. She was even going to come down and help work the event. We even decided to have her prepare rum cakes to put inside of the VIP gift boxes the day before she passed….

So my family decided to instead of asking people to send flowers for the funeral, we are requesting for people to donate money towards purchasing presents for the hospital. Since she passed November 10, 2015 during the holidays, we have decided to pick a different county hospital in different cities and do the same thing every year.

The 1st annual Cherry May Reynolds Christmas Hope fund was a success! We raised 725 in total allowing us to purchase gifts for 41 children ages 3-17.

We shopped at several different stores but we started off at Care Mart. For every hundred dollars spent in this store provided cared for a family of 4 including their utilities. We were able to provide for 8 people on our first run shopping!

The breakdown of Care Mart

We purchased 41 gifts for the children ages 3-17.

Dropping off gifts to the social workers of the Infectious Disease Clinic of Grady Hospital!

In My Head

“True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“You don't fit love into your life, you fit life into your love.”

"Your family is number one."

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

“It’s time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.” – Iyanla Vanzant

“You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you.” - Josephine Baker

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

If our lives shall be such that we shall receive the glad welcome of "Well done, good and faithful servant," we shall then know that we have not lived in vain.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

A real woman can do it all by herself, but a real man won't let her.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. -Bill Cosby

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined!

Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who does not dream, does not have much.

Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. Life is too short to be anything but happy

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile